EligibilityThose eligible to vote in this poll are:-Users with accounts created before March 11, 2008-Users who are not using Cyrillic language services (there is a poll for Cyrillic users at lj_election_ru)-Users who have accounts with validated email addresses

VotingUsers should select their first choice, second choice, and third choice candidates from the drop-down list.

Determining the winnerThe poll will be closed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008-If a user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, that candidate will be declared the winner-If no user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, we will begin using an Instant Runoff process. The user with the lowest tally for first-choice vote will be eliminated, and the second choice candidate on those ballots will be substituted as first choice. This process will continue (drop lowest candidate, reassign to next vote, tally again) until any user has more than 50% of the vote.-If all ballots are exhausted and no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, we will return to the first round and award the election to the candidate with the most 1st choice votes.

Member TermThe new Advisory Board member will be announced by the end of the day on Friday, May 30, 2008 and will begin their one-year term of service on June 1, 2008.

You've got two things wrong. She's not arguing the technicalities of free speech, but the principle within it and the tolerance one in an advisory capacity should have, particularly with those they dislike. Even I can see that. Several of the candidates opened up their journals to discuss the election and it becamse part of the larger discussion that was taking place on communities. This particular journal was allowing proactively negative comments about others stand, yet banning those who had differing points of view and expressed them the ways they did.

It's very easy to play the semantics game, calling some "trolls" when we just don't like what they have to say, how often they say it, or how they communicate it. Be careful with that, from the looks of your comments here you seem so well-educated and articulate. But you're not immune, and neither is the candidate who banned others from her journal.